# BlitzAPI alternatives in 2026: any condition as a row, from 5¢ Compared on Nov 12, 2026. The page: https://specstream.ai/alternatives/blitzapi BlitzAPI is a B2B data API on flat monthly plans: Start is $99 a month for 200,000 records, Scale $499 for 5,000,000. At the limit, calls pause until the next billing cycle, and unused records do not carry over. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the companies or people in plain words, with any condition and field, and get each match as a row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1. Source URL and read time on every value. [Get an API key](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-blitzapi&utm_source=alternatives-md&utm_campaign=blitzapi&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fagents%3Ftab%3Dkeys) New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. ## SpecStream and BlitzAPI side by side | | SpecStream | BlitzAPI | |---|---|---| | What you send | The companies or people you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet and the fields to bring back | Filters on its endpoints: companies by industry, size, location, funding and tech stack, people by title, seniority, function and geography, or one LinkedIn URL to enrich | | What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | Records from its database of 550M+ profiles, 65M+ companies, 65M+ verified emails and 100M+ job postings, up to 50,000 records in a single query | | The unit you pay for | A delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. The same rate on every plan | A monthly plan. One record is one company, one person, one email address, one phone number or one job posting returned, and a call that finds nothing counts nothing | | The price to start | $10 of credit on sign-up, no card. Plans at $19, $99 or $499 a month turn their whole price into credit | 1,000 free records, no card. Start $99 a month, Scale $499 a month, Build Your Infra from $999 a month, scoped on a call | | Monthly volume | No monthly allowance to size. The most a run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages | 200,000 records a month on Start and 5,000,000 on Scale. At the limit, calls pause until the next cycle, and unused records do not carry over | | Emails and phones | An email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢ to the row that carries it, on every plan. An email no page printed is labeled likely | Verified work emails, and an address it cannot prove comes back Not Found. Phone endpoints come with a paid plan, not with the free records | | Speed | A run keeps working until it reaches the count, up to four hours on the largest lists, and you get the rows when it ends | 10 requests a second per endpoint on Start, 25 on Scale | | Keeping data up to date | Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, and an unchanged row costs 1¢ | Every verified email is re-checked at least every 30 days | | Building it into your product | MCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDC | The API, an MCP server, Skills and typed SDKs. When people outside your company use features built on Blitz, Blitz Embedded starts at $2,000 a month on an annual agreement | | Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks | API responses, into the workflows you build | ## Why GTM teams choose SpecStream over BlitzAPI ### Accounts by the trait your best customers share BlitzAPI answers with the records its database holds, through the filters its endpoints take. A SpecStream request is the whole job, written once: "VPs of sales at US software companies with 50 to 500 employees that are hiring account executives, with the company, the open role and a work email for each". SpecStream turns the request into the conditions every row must meet and the facts to bring back, which you can edit before it runs. Then it searches the live web, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record per company or person. A row that fails one condition is not delivered and not billed. ### You pay for rows, with no monthly allowance The rates are on [pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=blitzapi): 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. Plans at $19, $99 and $499 a month turn their whole price into credit at the same rates. There is no record count that resets each cycle and no pause at a limit. Duplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. ### Each email says where it came from An email a page printed comes with the page it was read on. An email no page printed is built from the company's published pattern, labeled likely and billed as an email, so you know which is which before you send. ### Every run has a maximum you approve Every request gets a quote of the most it can cost, and pricing a request spends nothing. Nothing runs until you approve the quote, the charge never goes past it, and what the run does not use goes back to your balance. An API key carries its own limits: total, per run and monthly. Agents connect to `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` with OAuth or an API key, and your team uses the workspace, from one balance. ### Rows that stay up to date Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row 1¢, and new matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet, a CRM or a signed webhook. US funding rounds, layoffs and new executives are on [signals](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=blitzapi). ### The most accurate web search API, on the same account The same key runs the Search API. On SimpleQA Verified it scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official questions, 978 of them correct. On WideSearch it scores 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The scores and method are on [benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=blitzapi). The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, and $1 per 1,000 on the fast tier. The Extract API reads pages at $0.80 per 1,000, and a page with no text is not charged. ## Other BlitzAPI alternatives ### SpecStream The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words, through the API, MCP or the workspace, returns every company or person that meets your conditions as a row, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. ### Crustdata A B2B data API billed in credits: 0.03 a search result, 1 to 9 a person and from 2 a company, with $20 in free credits and credits that last 12 months. SpecStream prices the row, not the call, and shows the most a run can cost before it starts. ### People Data Labs A person data API whose Pro plan starts at $98 a month for 350 credits, with a free plan of up to 100 credits a month that hides emails, phones and addresses. On SpecStream an email costs 5¢ on every plan, including the $10 of credit you start with. See [People Data Labs alternatives](https://specstream.ai/alternatives/people-data-labs?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=blitzapi). ### Coresignal Company, employee and job records sold by the credit, from $49 a month, with 20 credits for a full employee record. SpecStream has no monthly allowance to size: each delivered row costs 5¢, 15¢ or $1. See [Coresignal alternatives](https://specstream.ai/alternatives/coresignal?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=blitzapi). ## How to switch Write the companies or people you want in plain words, in place of the filters you send today. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows. Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the `402` reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost. ``` curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"request": "VPs of sales at US software companies with 50 to 500 employees that are hiring account executives, with the company, the open role and a work email for each", "count": 25}' ``` Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC on Base, Arbitrum or Polygon, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance. Building on people data? See [people data API](https://specstream.ai/people-data-api?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=blitzapi). ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does BlitzAPI cost? BlitzAPI Start is $99 a month for 200,000 records at 10 requests a second per endpoint, Scale is $499 a month for 5,000,000 records at 25, and Build Your Infra starts at $999 a month, scoped on a call. Every account starts with 1,000 free records, no card. ### What counts as a BlitzAPI record? One record is one company, one person, one email address, one phone number or one job posting the API returns. A people search that returns 25 profiles counts 25 records, and a call that finds nothing counts nothing. ### What is the best BlitzAPI alternative? SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. You describe the companies or people and the fields in plain words, approve the most the run can cost, and get one row per match that meets every condition you wrote, with the source URL and read time on every value. ### Is there a free BlitzAPI alternative? New SpecStream accounts get $10 of credit, no card, which is up to 200 rows at 5¢. Crustdata starts accounts with $20 in free credits, and People Data Labs has a free plan of up to 100 credits a month with contact data hidden. ### Does SpecStream have an MCP server? Yes, at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp`, with OAuth or an API key. Deep Search returns companies and people as rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1, the Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, and the Extract API costs $0.80 per 1,000 pages, all from one balance. ### How accurate is SpecStream? The Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The scores and method are on [benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=blitzapi). In each row, every value carries the page it was read on and the time it was read. ## Sources SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page, read on the day shown. - [SpecStream pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks), read Nov 12, 2026 - [BlitzAPI pricing](https://blitz-api.ai/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [BlitzAPI home page](https://blitz-api.ai/), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Crustdata pricing](https://crustdata.com/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [People Data Labs person pricing](https://www.peopledatalabs.com/pricing/person), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Coresignal pricing](https://coresignal.com/pricing/), read Nov 12, 2026